Nonsense. Most commercial games have worked across distros with few problems since the early days. I just installed the Q3A demo from 1999 just to test: sure, the installer is broken (with Steam, it would be built-in), but the game runs. 800 FPS in demo001. That's better luck than I had with Bioshock (took several hours to get to run properly) and Saint's Row 2 (is broken, runs double speed) installed with Steam on Windows 7 64 bit, or getting anything at all to run with outdated versions of OS X.
"Not had any problems" simply means you've never even tried. Your X10 Mini Pro has an encrypted bootloader to prohibit the use of modified kernel images. It hasn't been cracked, and SE will never upgrade the phone to Froyo, Gingerbread or any other future Android version, and nor will they let capable hackers do it themselves.
Sure, it's not nearly as locked down as an iPhone, but Sony Ericsson still think the hardware they sold you belong to them, and now they want your phone to become obsolete.
There still might be a point in there somewhere, as hardly anyone uses a "default" install of Debian (and there are several): it's designed for the user to tailor it to her needs. Ubuntu, OTOH, is a package designed to be usable for most people by default.
As of December, Ubuntu was behind nearly the same amount of Wikipedia traffic as Android, slightly more than the more directly comparable iPad (assuming phones aren't used as much for web surfing as computers are, whereas the iPad is specifically designed for it). Either the iPad is still irrelevant, or Ubuntu is relevant.
No one, of course. But don't you have to run an app to, well, run it? Unless you restart your phone, evidently: Some apps do start up at boot even if you never started them before, but I've never noticed one start at install. Then again, I'm not entirely sure how the.apk packages work.
No, the summary specifically says that Android Honeycomb, assumed to be 3.0, is going to be tablets only. It says nothing about 3.1, and neither does the linked story.
And no, it doesn't matter one bit, I'm just pointing out that the guy I was replying to is an idiot fanboy whose "criticism" can just as well be pointed at the guys he praises with the same "insightful" words.
Look: iOS 3.2: iPad only. iOS 4.0 and 4.1: iPhone/iPod Touch only. Then, finally, with 4.2, they converge. And now Honeycomb: tablet only. Exactly like iOS 3.2. Must be nice to live in the RDF.
Ohhh, "something wrong". It's one version of the OS. When is iOS 4.0 coming for the iPad? Never, of course. Just like iOS 3.2 was iPad only and never came for the other Apple gadgets. So obviously there's something seriously wrong with iOS. Grow a brain.
Wrong. Israel demanded a totally demilitarised Palestine, with no exception for self-defence.
Also, Israel's culture is in just as much a need of a change. It's militaristic and racist, with a sense of entitlement for ever expanding Lebensraum. You can't expect their occupied territories to just bend over.
Yeah, except they were willing to give up parts of their own land, and you didn't bother to read the story since it doesn't fit your moronic prejudices.
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"Insightful" doesn't mean "I agree".
Nonsense. Most commercial games have worked across distros with few problems since the early days. I just installed the Q3A demo from 1999 just to test: sure, the installer is broken (with Steam, it would be built-in), but the game runs. 800 FPS in demo001. That's better luck than I had with Bioshock (took several hours to get to run properly) and Saint's Row 2 (is broken, runs double speed) installed with Steam on Windows 7 64 bit, or getting anything at all to run with outdated versions of OS X.
You mean, the numbers are only fair if Apple gets to win.
In the mobile space, its advantages over Linux and iOS are vastly superior power management while using less resources.
That's a dumb reason, as the GUI is only one layer of an OS with several strengths compared to Linux and iOS. It can be programmed in C++ with Qt.
The sooner Symbian goes away, the better, open source or not.
Why?
"Not had any problems" simply means you've never even tried. Your X10 Mini Pro has an encrypted bootloader to prohibit the use of modified kernel images. It hasn't been cracked, and SE will never upgrade the phone to Froyo, Gingerbread or any other future Android version, and nor will they let capable hackers do it themselves.
Sure, it's not nearly as locked down as an iPhone, but Sony Ericsson still think the hardware they sold you belong to them, and now they want your phone to become obsolete.
Avoid Sony Ericsson as well. I like their hardware, but not the way they treat their customers.
There still might be a point in there somewhere, as hardly anyone uses a "default" install of Debian (and there are several): it's designed for the user to tailor it to her needs. Ubuntu, OTOH, is a package designed to be usable for most people by default.
As of December, Ubuntu was behind nearly the same amount of Wikipedia traffic as Android, slightly more than the more directly comparable iPad (assuming phones aren't used as much for web surfing as computers are, whereas the iPad is specifically designed for it). Either the iPad is still irrelevant, or Ubuntu is relevant.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2010-12/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm
No one, of course. But don't you have to run an app to, well, run it? Unless you restart your phone, evidently: Some apps do start up at boot even if you never started them before, but I've never noticed one start at install. Then again, I'm not entirely sure how the .apk packages work.
When you install software on your phone, it shows up in the status bar. It's not like someone can install things secretly.
No, the summary specifically says that Android Honeycomb, assumed to be 3.0, is going to be tablets only. It says nothing about 3.1, and neither does the linked story.
And no, it doesn't matter one bit, I'm just pointing out that the guy I was replying to is an idiot fanboy whose "criticism" can just as well be pointed at the guys he praises with the same "insightful" words.
Look: iOS 3.2: iPad only. iOS 4.0 and 4.1: iPhone/iPod Touch only. Then, finally, with 4.2, they converge. And now Honeycomb: tablet only. Exactly like iOS 3.2. Must be nice to live in the RDF.
Ohhh, "something wrong". It's one version of the OS. When is iOS 4.0 coming for the iPad? Never, of course. Just like iOS 3.2 was iPad only and never came for the other Apple gadgets. So obviously there's something seriously wrong with iOS. Grow a brain.
Unless Bing puts Google right at the top of its search results. Which is what it does.
You forgot to refute what I said.
It only improves the results for as long as Google is better than Bing. Basically, Microsoft trusts Google more than it trusts its own product.
Adding the Qt libraries to Maemo is pretty huge, though.
Israel is more than capable of defending itself. Pretending this is "self defence" is utterly ridiculous.
Wrong. Israel demanded a totally demilitarised Palestine, with no exception for self-defence.
Also, Israel's culture is in just as much a need of a change. It's militaristic and racist, with a sense of entitlement for ever expanding Lebensraum. You can't expect their occupied territories to just bend over.
Yeah, except they were willing to give up parts of their own land, and you didn't bother to read the story since it doesn't fit your moronic prejudices.
Funny thing, though, is that his kind of thinking is the result of 60 years of McCarthyist brainwashing.
Sure. It's just that moving New York City is more expensive than walking a bit now and then.
Pretty much continuously:
http://lowendmac.com/hodges/06/0817.html